Job overview
Are you a Registered Nurse or Midwife seeking a new opportunity within a dynamic and forward-thinking team?
We are looking for a Public Health Staff Nurse to join our newly integrated 0-19 Children’s and Young People’s Public Health Service. This exciting new service brings together Health Visiting, School Health Nursing, and the Family Nurse Partnership to deliver the Healthy Child Programme (HCP). Our aim is to provide innovative, high-quality care to support children, young people, and families in thriving.
As a Public Health Staff Nurse, you will work with children aged 0-8 years, supporting those with identified concerns or vulnerabilities. You will deliver health-related interventions, covering areas such as behaviour, diet, sleep, and school readiness .
Main duties of the job
The responsibilities of the role include:
1. Delivering community-based health promotion activities.
2. Conducting developmental and transitional health assessments as part of the Healthy Child Programme.
3. Working closely with SCPHN Health Visitors, School Health Nurses, and other professionals to ensure the best outcomes for children and families.
4. Contributing to safeguarding processes, including Early Help assessments and Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings.
5. Engaging with families, schools, primary care teams, and statutory/voluntary agencies to improve public health outcomes.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
6. Excellent opportunities for career progression
7. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
8. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
9. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
10. Competitive pension scheme
11. Lease car scheme
12. Cycle to work scheme
13. Employee Assistance Programme
14. Mental Health First Aiders
15. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
16. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
There are a number of opportunities available and we will consider full time and part time posts.
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
17. Demonstrates an understanding of evidence-based practice
Desirable criteria
18. Community experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
19. First Level Registered Nurse or Midwife
20. Practice assessor/Supervisor
Skills
Essential criteria
21. Demonstrates an understanding of leadership skills
22. Excellent communicator with a high level of interpersonal and organisational skills
23. An effective and proactive team player
24. Competent knowledge and skills in IT packages e.g Microsoft word, excel
Desirable criteria
25. Motivates and inspires confidence and enthusiasm in self and team
Experience
Essential criteria
26. Experience of delivering health promotion activities
27. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
28. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
29. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
30. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
31. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
32. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
33. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
34. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing